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Brilliant Fiction by Those Who Take Themselves* Too Seriously

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  • Cover of: Selected Short Stories of William Faulkner

    Cover of edition selectedshortsto0000faul First published in 1960 — 12 editions work
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  • Cover of: Selected Short Stories of William Faulkner

    Cover of edition selectedshortsto0000faul First published in 1960 — 12 editions work
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  • Cover of: Suttree

    First published in 1979 — 15 editions work
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  • Cover of: Speed and Kentucky Ham

    First published in 1993 — 1 edition work
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  • Cover of: The Old Man and the Sea

    Cover of edition noinkwapada0000hemi Cover of edition laorenyuhai0013unse Cover of edition laorenyuhai0000unse_b5n0 Cover of edition laorenyuhai0000haim_f3h4 Cover of edition laorenyuhai0000unse_z9h5 Cover of edition laorenyuhaioldma0000hemi Cover of edition laorenyuhaichatu0000hemi Cover of edition laorenyuhaioldma0000haim Cover of edition ernesthemingways0000roza First published in 1952 — 224 editions work
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  • Cover of: To Kill a Mockingbird

    Cover of edition blblldrmek0000harp Cover of edition bulbuluoldurmekt0000leeh Cover of edition aengmusaechugigi0000leeh Cover of edition ubitperesmeshnik0000leeh Cover of edition matarunruiseor0000leeh Cover of edition tokillmockingbir0000harp Cover of edition tokillmockingbir00harp Cover of edition tokillmockingbir0000leeh_p8s0 Cover of edition tokillmockingbir00cole First published in 1960 — 187 editions work
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  • Cover of: Signposts in a strange land

    Cover of edition signpostsinstran00perc Cover of edition signpostsinstran0000perc First published in 1991 — 4 editions work
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  • Cover of: A death in the family

    First published in 1987 — 1 edition work
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  • Cover of: My education

    Cover of edition myeducationbooko00burr_0 First published in 1995 — 4 editions work
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  • Cover of: The complete stories of Evelyn Waugh

    First published in 1999 — 2 editions work
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  • Cover of: The cat and the devil

    Cover of edition catdevil0000jame Cover of edition catdevil00joyc First published in 1964 — 15 editions work
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  • Cover of: The Road

    Cover of edition road0000mcca_z7i3 Cover of edition road0000mcca_o5t5 Cover of edition road0000mcca_z2u4 Cover of edition droga00mcca Cover of edition lacarretera0000mcca Cover of edition lastrada00mcca Cover of edition road00mcca Cover of edition unset0000unse_f0a5 Cover of edition roadmovietieined00corm_0 First published in 2006 — 65 editions work
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  • Cover of: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

    Cover of edition krwawypoudnikalb0000mcca Cover of edition meridianodesangr00corm Cover of edition bloodmeridianore00mcca Cover of edition bloodmeridianore00mcca_638 First published in 1985 — 27 editions work
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  • Cover of: Stories, essays & memoir

    First published in 1998 — 2 editions work
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  • Cover of: As I Lay Dying

    Cover of edition asilaydying0000faul_q6i5 Cover of edition asilaydying0000faul Cover of edition asilaydyingcorre00will_0 Cover of edition paradiselostsams00milt Cover of edition asilaydyingcorr00faul Cover of edition asilaydying00will Cover of edition asilaydying00faul Cover of edition asilaydyingcorre0000faul Cover of edition asilaydying0000faul_q2c4 First published in 1915 — 62 editions work
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  • Cover of: Go Down, Moses

    Cover of edition godownmoses00faul_0 Cover of edition godownmoses0000will Cover of edition godownmoses0000faul_x9o8 Cover of edition godownmoses00faul Cover of edition m175godownmoses00will Cover of edition godownmosesurb00faul Cover of edition godownmoses0000faul First published in 1940 — 36 editions work
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  • Cover of: Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and other works: Endgame, Krapp's last tape, All that fall : Three novels: Molloy, Malone dies, The unnamable

    First published in 1971 — 1 edition work
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  • Cover of: Wise blood

    Cover of edition wiseblood00ocon_1 First published in 1952 — 18 editions work
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  • Cover of: The long goodbye

    First published in 1971 — 1 edition work
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  • Cover of: All the Pretty Horses

    Cover of edition alldieschonenpfe0000corm Cover of edition desijolischevaux0000mcca_q7s4 Cover of edition desijolischevaux0000mcca Cover of edition todosloscaballas0000mcca Cover of edition isbn_9785389017061 Cover of edition unoscaballosmuyl0000mcca Cover of edition allprettyhorses0000mcca Cover of edition allprettyhorses0000mcca_p7a0 Cover of edition allprettyhorses00mcca First published in 1992 — 37 editions work
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  • Cover of: The Big Sleep

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  • Cover of: Stories

    Cover of edition stories00less First published in 1978 — 4 editions work
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  • Cover of: Short stories

    Cover of edition isbn_9781931082617 Cover of edition isbn_9781931082624 Cover of edition imageotherstorie00sing Cover of edition collectedstories00sing Cover of edition collectedstories0000sing First published in 1982 — 16 editions work
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  • Cover of: To kill a mockingbird

    First published in 1961 — 2 editions work
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  • Cover of: A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again

    First published in 1997 — 4 editions work
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  • Cover of: Count Zero

    Cover of edition countzero00gibs_0 Cover of edition biochipszweiterr00gibs Cover of edition countzero00gibs_271 Cover of edition condecero00gibs First published in 1986 — 29 editions work
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  • Cover of: Three Famous Short Novels (Bear / Old Man / Spotted Horses)

    Cover of edition threefamousshort0000faul Cover of edition threefamousshort00faulrich Cover of edition threefamousshort0000faul_d8f0 Cover of edition threefamousshort011427mbp First published in 1948 — 18 editions work
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  • Cover of: Ulysses

    Cover of edition UlyssesShake1925_Oct Cover of edition UlyssesLittleOak Cover of edition ulyssesshake1927 Cover of edition ulyssesshake1928 Cover of edition ulysses04300gut Cover of edition ulysses_1401_librivox Cover of edition ulysses_2007_librivox Cover of edition ulyssesshake1922_1large Cover of edition ulysses00joyc_1 First published in 1920 — 584 editions work
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  • William S. Burroughs

    William S. Burroughs

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  • Philip K. Dick

    Philip K. Dick

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  • Virginia Woolf

    Virginia Woolf

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  • William Gibson

    William Gibson

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  • Harper Lee

    Harper Lee

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  • Cover of: The Broom of the System

    First published in 1987 — 10 editions work
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  • Jack Kerouac

    Jack Kerouac

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  • Cormac McCarthy

    Cormac McCarthy

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  • James Agee

    James Agee

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  • Ayn Rand

    Ayn Rand

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  • Cover of: Stranger in a Strange Land

    Cover of edition enterreetrangere0000hein Cover of edition strangerinstrang00hein Cover of edition strangerinstrang0000robe Cover of edition strangerinstrang0000robe_m8r2 Cover of edition strangerinstrang0000hein Cover of edition strangerinstrang00robe Cover of edition strangerinstrang0000hein_c7h5 Cover of edition strangerinstran00hein Cover of edition strangersinstran00robe First published in 1961 — 78 editions work
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  • Ken Kesey

    Ken Kesey

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  • Joan Didion

    Joan Didion

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  • Kingsley Amis

    Kingsley Amis

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  • Cover of: Nile shadows

    First published in 1983 — 6 editions work
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  • Edward Whittemore

    Edward Whittemore

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  • Cover of: Special Topics in Calamity Physics

    Cover of edition laphysiquedescat0000pess Cover of edition specialtopicsinc00pess Cover of edition specialtopicsinc0000pess_k8v0 Cover of edition specialtopicsinc00mari Cover of edition specialtopicsinc00pess_0 Cover of edition specialtopicsinc00mari_0 First published in 2006 — 15 editions work
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  • Walker Percy

    Walker Percy

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  • Cover of: The return of Simple

    Cover of edition returnofsimple00hugh Cover of edition returnofsimple00hugh_0 Cover of edition returnofsimple00hugh First published in 1994 — 5 editions work
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  • Kurt Vonnegut

    Kurt Vonnegut

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  • Cover of: The Wapshot Chronicle

    Cover of edition wapshotchronicle0000chee_i1o1 Cover of edition wapshotchronicle00john Cover of edition wapshotchronicle0000chee Cover of edition wapshotchronicle00chee Cover of edition wapshotchronicle00chee_0 First published in 1957 — 27 editions work
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  • Cover of: Yesteryear's child

    First published in 1993 — 1 edition work
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History

June 29, 2017 Edited by Maria Williams updated list seeds.
June 28, 2017 Edited by Maria Williams updated list seeds.
June 13, 2017 Edited by Maria Williams updated list seeds.
June 12, 2017 Edited by Maria Williams updated list seeds.
October 10, 2016 Created by Maria Williams Created new list.